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title: These sculptures often depict important animals in Mozambique, like… — Maputo · tree and pragmatics
description: These sculptures often depict important animals in Mozambique, like hippos, etc... Who acts: sculptures. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maputo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maputo, sentence 301

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From Wikipedia, [«Maputo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maputo), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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These sculptures often depict important animals in Mozambique, like hippos, etc...

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**Who acts:** sculptures · **What happens:** depict · **To what, where:** important animals, Mozambique

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maputo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sculptures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Maputo:301
# text = These sculptures often depict important animals in Mozambique, like hippos, etc...
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	sculptures	sculpture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	depict	depict	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	etc	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depict** | present | this sculptures | important animals |  | Mozambique |  | like hippos and etc; often *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Maputo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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